The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish, a grampus or sperm whale, because it draws water as its breath instead of air.

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone, and why a bird sustains itself in the air.

The water which rises in the mountain is the blood which keeps the mountain in life.

The air moves like a river and carries the clouds with it; just as running water carries all the things that float upon it.

The earth is moved from its position by the weight of a tiny bird resting upon it.

The water you touch in a river is the last of that which has passed, and the first of that which is coming. Thus it is with time present. Life, if well spent, is long.